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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context.

A timid young man (Jon Heder) is anxious to ask his neighbor out on a date but he can't work up the courage. So, he enrolls in a top-secret, confidence-building school, and as the class progresses he eventually asks his neighbor on a date, and she accepts. However, he soon realizes that his teacher (Billy Bob Thornton) at the self-esteem boosting school is also dating the same woman. Also with Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan and Horatio Sanz. Directed by Todd Phillips. [1:41]

SEX/NUDITY 4 - A man and a woman kiss in a couple of scenes. We see a photo of a woman and a man kissing.► A man draws a line drawing of a breast and nipple on a chalkboard during a class presentation. We see a slide presentation that shows two lions mating.► A man wearing T-shirt and jockey shorts sits in his boss' office after having been accosted by two men who stole his clothes. A man gets out of bed in his underwear (jockey shorts and a T-shirt).► While filing a police report a woman says that "he stole my underwear" and another woman says, "I don't wear underwear."► A man with a paintball gun forces three men to undress to their underwear, and bound by the hands, to lean over a tree trunk (it is implied that their may have been a plan to sexually assault them but it is not acted out).► A man reads a love letter, which, it is implied, another man has written to him.

VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man is struck first in the head with a tennis ball, and then a tennis racket; then he is struck in the crotch by a tennis ball, a man tackles him and they wrestle on the ground briefly.► A man holds a cloth over another man's mouth and nose until he falls unconscious. A man is tasered in the crotch and another man is zapped in the chest by medical equipment.► Two men threaten a man, they shove and kick the small vehicle he is driving, and one man shoots out one of the tires whereupon the man faints.► We see a man with his hands taped behind him being held at gunpoint by another man, he falls down a hill and we read that the man was never seen again.► A man with a paintball gun forces three men to undress to their underwear, and bound by the hands, to lean over a tree trunk (it is implied that their may have been a plan to sexually assault them but it is not acted out).► Two men disguised as police put handcuffs on a third man and escort him to an elevator; one sprays the handcuffed man with mace but all three are affected by it, they scream and thrash around and one knocks a woman and her shopping cart down. A man shoves another man back onto a desk and he falls over it and onto the floor. A man is held upside down by his shorts and his head is dunked into a toilet. A man is shot in the chest with a paint ball (at close range), and then another man is shot repeatedly in the crotch.► A man shoots a man with a paintball gun, the man falls to the ground yelling and holding his face, and the man who shot him thinks he hit him in the face but it was a ruse. A man falls back through a glass top table shattering it, while trying to get away from two men. Three men hold paintball guns on each other.► A man smears jello in a man's face. A man slaps a man's hands. A man shoves another man backward and off a chair. A man is verbally abusive to two men as they walk through a hallway, and he pushes the back of one of their heads. Two men argue over a Danish, and one shoves the other.► A man breaks a woman's violin against a tree. A man breaks a car windshield using a baseball bat. A man stabs a basketball, deflating it, and the men using the ball threaten him. A woman confronts a man about lying to her.► A man tells another man that yet another man, "might rape you." A man asks another man if another man raped him. A man threatens to bite the lips off a man. A man threatens to beat a man up. A man makes a remark about a 9-year-old boy's father having been shot in the heart. A man tells a woman that his wife died. We learn that a man wearing a T-shirt and jockey shorts has been accosted by two men who stole his clothes.► We see a slide presentation showing a lion with a dead zebra in its jaws.► A man has panic attacks in several scenes that cause him to hyperventilate and faint. A man screams when he is startled by another man. A man is shown drunk and he collapses on the floor.► A man steals live lobsters out of a tank in a restaurant and releases them into a river.► A man urinates (we see the stream) and a man scratches at his crotch several times.

A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period. While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.

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